Messages in this thread | | | From | (David Wagner) | Subject | Re: Fortuna | Date | Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC) |
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Jean-Luc Cooke wrote: >Info-theoretic randomness is a strong desire of some/many users, [..]
I don't know. Most of the time that I've seen users say they want information-theoretic randomness, I've gotten the impression that those users didn't really understand what information-theoretic randomness means, and their applications usually didn't need information-theoretic randomness in the first place.
As for those who reject computational security because of its unproven nature, they should perhaps be warned that any conjectured information-theoretic security of /dev/random is also unproven.
Personally, I feel the issue of information-theoretic security is a distraction. Given the widespread confusion about what information-theoretic security means, I certainly sympathize with why Jean-Luc Cooke left in the existing entropy estimation technique as a way of side-stepping the whole argument.
Anyway, the bottom line is I don't consider "information-theoretic arguments" as a very convincing reason to reject Cooke's proposal. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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